"Yan Yingyuan? The one who guards the mountain and yang? ”

Dolgon's face instantly turned cold.

This is the shadow of the so-called human name tree, the battle of Shanyang made Yan Yingyuan famous, and even Dolgon had already heard of Yan Yingyuan's name.

"It's really worthy of its name."

"As soon as we came up, they gave us a dismount."

With a sneer, Dolgon said again: "It's just that in the face of absolute strength, no amount of intrigue and trickery can play a big role, and he shouldn't come to Dagukou." ”

"What the master said is very true." Hou Fangyu complimented.

"Yan Yingyuan can only kill himself when he comes to Dagukou."

"Chongzhen thinks he has a plan, but he is actually burying the generals."

Hou Fangyu really hated Chongzhen, and he smeared it when he had the opportunity.

Dorgon snorted softly and said, "Tell the order, camp here." ”

Dolgon's will was conveyed, and the accompanying Eight Banners Han Army, the Green Battalion, and a small number of Eight Banners soldiers began to set up camp on the south bank of the Wei River, and set up a total of three camps.

The Eight Banners Han Army has a camp, and the Green Camp has a camp.

Between the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Battalion, the two thousand white-armored soldiers had a separate camp.

When it was almost noon, the three camps of the Qing army were basically settled.

Because the Ming army that attacked and occupied Dagukou was only about 5,000, Dolgon did not levy too many troops, except for Wu Sangui's 20,000 green battalion soldiers, there were only 10,000 Han troops of the Eight Banners and 2,000 Bayala soldiers.

Two thousand white armor, one thousand are white flags, and the other thousand are yellow flags.

Needless to say, the 1,000 Baya soldiers with yellow flags came to protect Fulin.

The camp had just been set up, and Shi Tingzhu had also counted the losses of the Eight Banners Han Army.

Shi Tingzhu walked into the Chinese army's tent with an ugly face and reported to Dolgon: "Master, the losses have been clearly calculated, there are 481 ice plows falling into the water, and the total amount of materials loaded is 48 red-coated cannons, more than 8,000 stone wheat or millet, more than 1,000 barrels of gunpowder and more than 20,000 catties of dried meat. ”

Dolgon's face immediately turned ugly.

With a dark face, he asked, "Can the red-clothed cannons and supplies still be fished up?" ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "Back to the master, it is not difficult to fish up the grain and dried meat, and it is still edible after scooping it up, but it is difficult to fish up the red-coated cannon that has fallen into the water, because the Wei River has not yet thawed, and the sailor's warship cannot drive here, so there is no way to find and salvage the red-coated cannon that has sunk to the bottom of the river." ”

Dolgon said, "Can't wait until the Wei River freezes back and then dig the ice and salvage it?" ”

There are generally only two ways to salvage shipwrecks in rivers or lakes, one is to use boats and winches to salvage, and the other is to dig ice after the rivers or lakes freeze, and then salvage them from ice caves.

However, the ice chiseling method can only be used in cold weather, and it cannot be used to salvage heavy objects.

"Back to the master, the ice after re-freezing is too thin and too brittle." Shi Tingzhu said with a wry smile, "I can't bear the weight of the red-clothed cannon at all, so I can only wait for the arrival of the sailor after the Wei River thaws." ”

"Damn it." "And how many redcoat cannons are left?" ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "This time I brought a total of 100 red-clothed cannons, and now there are fifty-two left, which should be enough, if the master feels that it is not enough, he can transfer another fifty cannons." ”

Dorgon said, "Forget it, let's use it first." ”

Before the battle was fought at Dagukou, he had to transfer troops from Beijing again, and it would be very embarrassing to spread the news, and it would seriously damage his prestige, so he could not be reconciled or not.

After a pause, Dolgon asked again: "How many casualties did the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Han Army have?" ”

"More than three thousand." Shi Tingzhu's face darkened, and he whispered, "More than 500 of them were killed, more than 100 people drowned after falling into the water, and more than 800 people were seriously injured. ”

"Then find a place where no one is there and deal with it quietly." Dolgon said coldly.

The grain of the Qing Dynasty was very limited, and it was impossible for the waste keepers to raise the waste people, so they could only be disposed of.

"Huh!" Shi Tingzhu agreed, and left the big tent with a gloomy face, his mood at this moment was undoubtedly very bad, because he had lost hundreds of elite Han troops today.

As for the life or death of the Green Battalion, he didn't care.

Dolgon's gaze fell on Ahsan again, and he shouted, "Ahsan, are you guilty? ”

Ah Shan drooped his head and didn't say a word, this time there was such a big mistake, and he was really guilty of being a solid mountain with a white flag, because he personally led the night of fighting for the front station of the army.

Last night, he personally led more than 100 Bayalas to reconnoitre, and when he was closest to the Ming army at Dagukou, he was only less than 100 paces away, and he did not find anything unusual during this period.

Dolgon continued: "You participated in the Battle of Shanyang two years ago, and you also learned Yan Yingyuan's intrigues, why did you neglect to reconnoiter the Wei River this time? Huh? ”

Ah Shan really wanted to say that I am not a shaman, how did I know that Yan Yingyuan would come?

Besides, the Wei River is so wide and so long, how do I know where the Ming army buried the gunpowder? Isn't it possible for me to take an ice ballast and stick it everywhere along the Wei River? Can you tie me?

But in the end, Ahsan still didn't say a word of defense.

In any case, it is always true that all this was caused by his negligence.

Ah Shan's good confession made Dolgon feel better, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ah Shan, because of your negligence and negligence caused such heavy losses to the army, I will demote Ling to two levels of knighthood and fine you one hundred taels of silver, however, I allow you to make meritorious contributions for your crimes, as long as you make meritorious contributions in the next great war, you can atone for your crimes." ”

"The slave thanked the master for not killing." Ahsan knelt on the ground and retreated.

Dolgon's gaze turned to Shi Tingzhu again: "Shi Tingzhu, you are limited to erect all the red-clothed cannons within an hour, and then destroy the two platforms on the periphery of Dagu Pass first. ”

"Huh!" Shi Tingzhu knelt on the ground and turned to leave.

……

In the forward positions of the Ming army.

Taking advantage of the fact that Jiannu had not yet launched an attack, Sun Fanzhi was leading the soldiers of the new army to seize the time to strengthen the platform, and the wall and slope protection of the platform had been tamped tightly, and now the main thing was to deepen the trench.

Zhou Peigong was also helping, using a dustpan to lift the soil dug out of the trench to the outside of the slope protection.

These soft soil layers covered on the slope protection can form a certain protection for the slope protection, so that the Jiannu shells will reduce the damage to the slope protection after the dissipation of the loose soil layer.

Then the life of the outer slope protection will be greatly extended.

Zhou Peigong was very curious about the fortifications in front of him.

"Engong, is this also a castle?" Zhou Peigong asked, "I haven't seen it in the book." ”

"On the books?" Sun Fanzhi asked as he raised the soil, "What kind of military books have you read?" ”

"I haven't read a few books, but I've only read a new book on performance." Zhou Peigong said with some embarrassment, "There is no such thing in the above diagram of Putrajaya. ”

"Of course it's not in the new book of performance."

Sun Fanzhi said with a smile: "This is called the Guntai, which is improved by the current Saint according to the Western Guntai, and it can be used to defend against artillery, and it is even stronger than a city wall a few zhang thick. ”

"That's it?" Zhou Peigong was obviously a little unconvinced, "Can it be stronger than a city wall a few zhang thick?" ”

"Boy, you don't understand this, don't underestimate this slope protection, the most powerful thing about this slope protection is the angle between it and the ground, because this angle is extremely small, so the shell will form a ricochet after hitting the slope protection, so that the impact force of the slope protection itself will be greatly reduced." Sun Fanzhi patiently explained to Zhou Peigong.

As he spoke, a scream suddenly sounded above the trench as if the air had been torn apart, and as soon as he heard this, Sun Fanzhi knew that it was the Eight Banners Han Army that had begun to shell.

"Go back!"

Sun Fanzhi immediately took Zhou Peigong and other soldiers of the new army under his command to go around to the rear of the platform, and then entered the bunker through the entrance behind the platform to avoid the shelling of Jiannu.

……

Dorgon had already climbed onto the well-built cart.

Standing on the well car more than five zhang high, you can clearly see the Ming army in front of you.

Through the telescope, Dolgon could clearly see that in just three days, the Ming army built a large platform on the west and south sides of the Dagu Pass.

This seems to be different from the tactics of the Ming army in Xuzhou.

The Ming army in Xuzhou relied on the number of guns, and the specifications of each platform were not large, and they were not necessarily strong, but they won in a huge number, which made the Qing army at a loss when attacking.

The Ming army at Dagukou only built two large platforms.

The two platforms plus the Dagu mouth itself form a zigzag.

In addition to the size of these two large platforms is larger than the Xuzhou platform, there is almost no difference in shape, they are all concave hexagons, no matter which direction the Qing army attacked, they had to face the cross fire of the Ming army from both directions, but each edge temporarily only had a wooden fence, which was not too strong.

Judging by the thickness of the wood, the flintlock pistol will definitely not be able to penetrate.

But the shells of the redcoat cannon can be easily destroyed.

Dolgon originally thought that the wooden fence of the two guns would be easily torn apart by the cannons, but soon, he realized that something was wrong, and the shelling of the cannons never stopped, but the wooden fences of the guns were unscathed, what the shelling looked like when it began, and what it still looks like now.

"Master, the problem lies in the slope on the periphery of the platform."

Hou Fangyu said: "Because the outer ring of the slope is slightly higher than the wooden fence of the platform, the red-clothed cannons of the Eight Banners Han Army cannot hit the wooden fence at all unless they are hit from the top down. ”

"That's true." Hong Chengchou said, "Unless you penetrate the slope protection first, you can't hit the wooden fence." ”

"Mr. Hengjiu, it's impossible to penetrate the slope protection." Hou Fangyu said, "Because the inclination angle of that circle of slope protection is very large, it looks like flat ground, and the shells of the red-clothed cannon will jump up directly when they hit it." ”

"It's true." Dolgon, too, saw it, and the cannonballs kept jumping.

Although there were many more craters on the front of the slope, there was no substantial damage.

(End of chapter)